Ruling · Śaṅkara Jayantī · 1947

Friday 25 April

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 556 minutes.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Friday 25 April

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:53  13:41 madhyāhna ends
12:0512:2912:5313:1713:4114:0514:29

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Saturday 26 April

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:52  13:40 madhyāhna ends
12:0412:2812:5213:1613:4014:0414:28

0 of 48 minutes covered

Pañcamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pañcamī runs from 03:37 on Fri 25 Apr to 01:03 on Sat 26 Apr.

    1947-04-24T18:36:53Z → 1947-04-25T16:03:06Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:53–13:41 on the 25th, 12:52–13:40 on the 26th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pañcamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 25th and 0 of 48 on the 26th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 33344 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śaṅkara Jayantī, Baoding, 1947: Friday 25 April.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śaṅkara Jayantī 1947 falls on Friday 25 April. Pañcamī runs from 03:37 on Fri 25 Apr to 01:03 on Sat 26 Apr and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1947/shankara-jayanti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 25 Apr
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 25 Apr
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 25 Apr
No institution has a recorded ruling for Baoding.

Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.

The rule, as data

/rules/shankara-jayanti · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Vaiśākha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pañcamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 5 Sankara jayanti.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePañcamīMadhyāhna 24thCoveredMadhyāhna 25thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:37 → 08:0311:2748 min11:270 min24 Apr
Chicago12:37 → 10:0311:250 min11:250 min25 Apr
Jersey City13:37 → 11:0311:310 min11:310 min25 Apr
Port of Spain14:37 → 12:0311:400 min11:4023 min25 Apr
London20:37 → 18:0313:350 min13:3548 min25 Apr
Durban20:37 → 18:0311:300 min11:3048 min25 Apr
Dubai22:37 → 20:0311:530 min11:5348 min25 Apr
Delhi00:07 → 21:3311:560 min11:5548 min25 Apr
Kolkata00:07 → 21:3311:110 min11:1148 min25 Apr
Singapore02:07 → 23:3312:090 min12:0948 min25 Apr
Sydney04:37 → 02:0311:290 min11:2948 min25 Apr
Suva06:37 → 04:0311:410 min11:4048 min25 Apr
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
shankara-jayanti@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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